You may recall some time ago that the nice people at Logitech sent me a beta preview of their new Squeezebox remote control. I was so chuffed I blogged about it. But now they’ve gone one better, and sent me a new base station unit and another remote. Again these are beta/preview devices (but they work perfectly). This is the new model replacing the old Squeezebox 3 and is called the Squeezebox Duet. As you can see they’ve removed the screen from the base unit and put a colour screen into the controller. The base unit connects wirelessly (or through a CAT5 cable) to the network and has both digital & stereo phono outputs on the back. Set-up was a doddle and it was up and running in no time. They seemed to have ironed out the bugs on the controller and browsing through your music is easy and with all the album art displayed it looks good too. The server behind it all - now called SqueezeCenter is much improved over the old Slimserver, it’s still in beta phase but I’ve not found any problems with it all.
For now I’m going to use this new one in the office room and keep the old Squeezebox 3 in the living room, the old unit has a screen on it, so it acts most of the time (when not playing music!) as very expensive clock, date & weather display. The core functionality of the two models, apart from the screen seems identical - the sound quality remains as good as it ever was.
Again I’m bowled over at the generosity of Logitech for sending these out. Thanks guys!
